Tri-State Defender, Washington Informer receive Chrysler Financial/NNPA awards
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William Jones, Chief Operating Office
for Chrysler Financial (center) presents the 2008 Chrysler
Financial/National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Foundation
Entrepreneurial Award to Dr. Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of the
Washington Informer newspaper and Dr. Karanja A. Ajanaku, executive
editor of the Tri-State Defender. (Courtesy Photo)
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Washington – William Jones is a former
waiter. Last week in Washington, the chief operating officer for
Chrysler Financial took special pleasure in bestowing an
entrepreneurial award to a newspaper that took “the risky” move of
examining the cultural factors involved in tipping...
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The Tri-State Defender nets award in national competition
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The Tipping Gap: What's at stake?
For decades, well-to-do African Americans, including many in Memphis and Shelby County, have complained to the national restaurant chains that they had to travel further to get a meal.
The community’s beef, if you will? Their restaurant dollars were helping to develop largely white counties, not their own neighborhoods. Was it racism? Several restaurant executives have since confided off-the-record that something other than race was at the root of this problem: lower African-American tipping levels...
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Size Matters: Do African-Americans get smaller tips?
African-American waiters and waitresses may do the same job as their white co-workers yet take home a lot less cash...
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What do you feel is a reasonable tip for good service?
People in Memphis give their opinions on what is a good tip...
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The Big Question: Do you tip when you dine out? If not, why not?
Myron Mays, host of "Myron at Midnite" on WRBO Soul Classics 103.5, blended the Tipping Education Campaign into his Feb. 8, 2008 show.
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The Tipping Gamble: Good service today, insults tommorrow
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Linda S. Wallace
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As an African American, going out for
dinner involves a certain amount of risk. I could very well end up with
delicious food and hurt feelings – all for the price of a meal in a
sit-down restaurant...
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